Where to from here for Today’s Working Mother

On Budget night women’s groups applauded the Rudd Government’s decision to introduce a paid parental leave scheme. It was an historic victory thirty years in the making and yet, the announcement barely registered with an electorate more concerned about the government’s decision to increase the retirement age to 67 years in order to pay for it. So what does this tell us about the current workplace? It’s obvious most of us are not happy – we are working longer hours and in the absence of more flexibility in how we structure our working lives, the best we can hope for is to retire at an age where we are still fit and healthy enough to enjoy it.

New Zealand journalist and author of the new book, Because We’re Worth It: A ‘where to from here’ for today’s working mother, Gill South (pictured), says in the current economic climate, nobody wants to be seen as a ‘problem worker’, especially those who have families to support. Read more

Secrets of Six Figure Women – Surprising Strategies to up your earnings and change your life

BOOK REVIEW. I have just finished reading Barbara Stanny’s inspiring book, “Secrets of Six Figure Women – Surprising Strategies to up your earnings and change your life.” I have to say I was a little hesitant when I purchased the book due to the title and the look of the book being fairly cheesy! As such I also suspected the advice and stories in the book might be lightweight however as I am researching the subject and found that there is not a lot out there, I would take the risk.

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The Power of Other Women’s Stories
Barbara tells her life story which is semi-interesting, however the stories that she gathers from high salary earners and low salary earners are inspiring. What I also found valuable was the themes that Barbara discovered that occurred amongst these two groups of women and how we can identify them in ourselves. There is even some career coaching exercises which are great for those women looking to make a career transition in order to up their salary or gain more satisfaction from work. Read more